Plato, who excelled at wrestling in his youth, compared rhetorical combat to pankration, an all-in bout. If Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” uses colloquial names for birds (“ousel ...

Dr Emily Morris, Instructor Department of English St. Thomas More College University of Saskatchewan The work includes explanation of the major rhetorical figures plus depth discussion of the ...

In a notable 2023 article published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, for example, Houdek offers a subversive reading of the Allegory of the Cave by giving voice and agency to Plato’s “strange prisoners” ...